The South African Police Service (SAPS)
needs two "airhostess" based at its air wing base at Wonderboom airport outside Pretoria, it said on Monday.
The successful applicants will simultaneously be sergeants in the police force and be expected to perform pretty much the duties of any commercial flight attendant,
a job description shows.
Although the job is advertised using the gendered term, which dates from a time when flight attendants were nearly universally women, being female is not listed among the prerequisites.
The job does come with a restriction on appearance: applicants must not have "tattoos which will be visible when wearing summer uniform" – a typical requirement for members of the police service, and
sometimes for flight crew too.
Applicants must hold a valid licence to operate as cabin crew in South Africa.
The jobs pay a total of just under R20,000, at a time when
local (and foreign) airlines are scrambling for crew to operate flights.
The hostesses must be South African citizens licensed to drive, and may not have criminal records or pending disciplinary proceedings.
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